Dr Shawn Vasoo said people are not taking the pandemic seriously enough and appealed to them to be more socially responsible.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - More people will die if those here continue to flout circuit breaker measures intended to counter the coronavirus, said National Centre for Infectious Diseases clinical director Shawn Vasoo on Monday .
As of noon on Sunday, there were more than 2,500 cases of Covid-19 infection here, eight of whom had died. His call was echoed by NCID executive director Leo Yee Sin, who acknowledged that being responsible - which means staying home, not going visiting, and avoiding older family members - might include sacrificing some freedom.First, it manifests itself as an innocuous and mild illness, which is coupled with a high virus secretion at its onset.
Third, as Sars-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, is a novel pathogen, the whole of Singapore is susceptible to it.
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